Word: filmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Castle sensation when Strike news turned stale; a Hauptmann when the ship story petered out; and now a juicy murder just as the Hauptmann case seemed to head downhill. But they also should have offered a grateful word to Cinema. For it was the millions who had seen the film of An American Tragedy, not the thousands who had plugged through Dreiser's two-volume novel, that lifted the Wilkes-Barre story from a cheap, provincial homicide to a seven-day sensation...
...Gillette case as An American Tragedy (the second volume is almost a stenographic record of the trial) Author Dreiser made Society the villain for having endowed Clyde Griffiths with a sordid background and for tormenting him with emotional stresses with which he was not equipped to deal. (The film version, starring Phillips Holmes and Sylvia Sidney, angered Dreiser to the point of trying to keep it off the screen because, he complained, it slighted the Dreiser sociology...
President Joseph M. Schenck of United Artists announced in Miami: "If Florida is on the alert, it will benefit to the extent of $150,000,000 a year on the film industry if Sinclair is elected." Not a whit of all this was lost on the campaign managers of Candidate Sinclair's opponents. But Wall Street was able to be amused as well as alarmed by what it called the "California-Here-I-Run" movement...
Across the hall from the court room, a library was hastily converted into a theatre where reels of soapmaking film were screened for the benefit of Federal Judge Thomas Whitten Slick, whose brother Albert runs a big South Bend laundry. As the trial progressed last week the court adjourned across the street to an office building where Lawyer Baker had installed complete laboratories. There white-coated chemists practiced the art of soapmaking at long tables groaning with beakers, bottles, vials, tubes. Most elaborate in the history of the Northern Indiana district court, the trial was expected to last three weeks...
...film rendition of "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch," now being shown at the Metropolitan Theatre, the whimsical flavor of the Alice Hegan Rice classic has been brought to the screen intact. It is a story of life in a small Ohio town during the later buggy and moustache cup period, only a few decades removed in time, but centuries away in spirit. The peg-top trousers and bombazine gowns, the town drunkard and the cruel banker, even the glorious extravaganza at the local "opera house" all bespeak that happy epoch before the pestilence known as Radio had standardized...